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Funeral Being Held Today For IE6
An anonymous reader writes "More than 100 people, many of them dressed in black, are expected to gather around a coffin Thursday to say goodbye to an old friend. The deceased? Internet Explorer 6. The aging Web browser, survived by its descendants Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8, is being eulogized at a tongue-in-cheek 'funeral' hosted by Aten Design Group, a design firm in Denver, Colorado."
... and nothing changed ...
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Decapitate, stake through the heart, and bury underneath a crossroads, just to make sure it won't come back.
Red to red, black to black. Switch it on, but stand well back.
1) “Old friend”? Hardly.
2) This should be in idle.
If I were to attend the funeral it would only be to ensure that it is truly dead! I would carry a stake, an axe and an EMP-gun in case the beast tries to rise again.
I'm inclined to show up, very drunk, and make a scene. Certainly calling the deceased "my abuser". Probably inexplicably accusing the mourners of being "hypocrites" and/or "phonies". Possibly culminating in me falling into the grave and freaking out.
-Peter
I'm waiting to dance on it's grave. It's been dead for years but some disgusting people out there just keep hanging on to it's rotting corpse.
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
that some people still have time to waste at work. On the other hand, they got some free publicity out of it.
This ceremony is all well and good, but of course it doesn't change the reality that approximately 30% of all web users still use IE6, either out of ignorance or because the company they work for doesn't allow any other browser...
In some countries, especially Korea and Japan, usage still hovers around 75%. IE6 has better support for the languages used there than its successors, and significantly better support tha even Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari offer.
couldn't we instead pillory and behead it, tie it to a stake and alight it on a burning pyre, and then stomp on its corpse?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Just to make sure it's really dead.
I am so sorry for you loss and offer my deep felt sympathy
While can say I hardly knew the deceased i felt a deep sense of loss upon hearing of their demise
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(SIGHUP OVERRIDDEN)
(DROPPING SPOOLER)
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In conclusion, he was a pick really...
-=[ Who Is John Galt? ]=-
This is all wishful thinking. Google ending support will not be the "final nail" in the proverbial coffin. IE 6 will continue to live in the corporate world (my own included unfortunately) for many years to come. This may be the first step, but its dancing before the music has started in my opinion.
A live code base and a retired code base have the same number of lines.
where I work (BigMegaCorpCo) IE6 is still standard, and will be for the forseeable future. We're forbidden to upgrade to 7 or 8.
...Doubleclick... Ooops, I mean Doubletap.
IE6 is still very much alive and will still be for the next 2 years. In the meanwhile I'll be more than happy to provide support for it, after learning it's quirks all these years.
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The official site is here http://ie6funeral.com/
Don't know why it wasn't included in the summary.
What's wrong with these people?
A nice guy actually...
But my company is still using IE6 as its standard browser. IE6 ain't dead yet...
I see that I'm actually "running" IE 6.0.whatever.
I never actually "use" it (use in quotes because who knows? the system is probably utilizing components of it for something stupid, like image display or file searching or playing the shutdown wav file), and I keep everything patched, but I suppose I'm possibly part of the problem... I am wary of what updating to 7 or 8 would do as far as installing more stuff on my otherwise working systems..
Is there any consensus as far as whether to upgrade or patch when the user will --never-- use IE6,7 or 8?
Ordinarily, I wouldn't post this http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/04/ie6.funeral/index.html?hpt=T2, but the comments from non-techies are eye opening. They believe it's a "ploy" from Microsoft to get you to upgrade to Windows 7. You can pry IE 6 from their cold dead hands. IE 6 unfortunately, isn't dying anytime soon.
"Ones and zeros were everywhere. I even think I saw a two!" - Bender
I like the idea but it all seems like a shameless covert plug for "Aten Design Group, a design firm in Denver, Colorado"
"During My Service In The United States Congress, I Took The Initiative In Creating The Internet." -Al Gore
Tell me where the grave site is, and I'll go put my dancing shoes on!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Posting this from a computer running a browser that now wants my braaaaaaaaaaaaaaains
your ears;
I come to bury IE6, not to praise it.
The evil that Microsoft does lives after it;
The good is oft interred with their code;
So let it be with IE6, The noble Stallman
Hath told you IE6 was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault;
And grievously hath IE6 answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Ballmer and the rest, -
For IE6 is an honorable browser;
So are they all, all honorable browsers, -
Come I to speak in IE6's funeral.
It was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Stallman says he was ambitious;
And Stallman is an honorable man.
There'll be another man, dressed in camo, to walk up and piss on the grave. I may or may not take credit.
I find it ironic that I'm reading this article using IE 6 (my company refuses to get rid of it!). Would this be called Necro-Browsing?
There, I corrected you.
"Hail, Hail! The Witch is Dead"
"And there was great rejoicing."
If someone is passing you on the right, you are an asshole for driving in the wrong lane.
It's nice to know in this time of devastating earthquakes, SOME people can still whine about what others do in their own time.
+3 Insightful... piss off you mods on crack.
The obituary forgot to mention that IE6 is also survived by his wife Windows XP, probably because she was having an affair with Firefox....Hussy.
that some people still have time to waste at work. On the other hand, they got some free publicity out of it.
and what the hell are you doing right now Mr ClosedSource? Shouldn't you be working on patching that buffer overflow exploit in your recursive malloc function that some nice researcher reported free of charge 8 months ago?
REST IN HELL CRAPVILLE!
"Lame" - Galaxar
and thanks for all the bugs and backdoors!
Maybe Computers will never be as intelligent as Humans.
For sure they won't ever become so stupid. [VR-1988]
But there might be people who consider it bad taste if I were to dance on the coffin.
So we all know where to pee.
Note to NetWare users: General Support is Coming to an End
2 March 2010 - 5:11pm
novell.com
This will come as no surprise, since they've been talking about it for awhile. On March 7, 2010, NetWare will end its phase of general support. Extended support will be available between March 8, 2010 and March 7, 2012. For three years after that, until March 7, 2015, customers may utilize Novell's self-support resources...
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Companies never use products that don't have commercial support. Nobody will support a broken browser that doesn't receive updates and the company will be left to their own devices, for which they will have nobody left to blame after they fire the entire IT dept.
Like the one that was given to Mac OS 9?
Major web development projects with IE6 have ended. In the Battle of the Internet, Mozilla Firefox and our Webkit competitors have prevailed. And now our team is engaged in programming and redesigning that site.
Mod me down! (Flamebait/Troll, just like last time.)
We know where leadership by an anti-intellectual "strongman" who scapegoats minorities and likes boisterous rallies goes
So it goes.
There seemed to lurk in IE6's bearing some cryptic, sardonic arrogance, as if he had come to find all human beings dull though having moved among stranger and more potent entities. He was, of course, virtually an outcast, suspected of vague horrors and daemoniac alliances which seemed all the more menacing because they could not be named, understood, or even proved to exist.
I met him once when I was younger and he shewed me a mangled frame containing the incomprehensible word "YOGSOTHOTHE" and promised me that we would meet again one day. So it is with mixed feelings that I hear of the death of IE6, for I well remember that strange couplet from the blasphemous book by The Mad Arab Abdul Alhazred that he spake to me as a goodbye: "That is not dead which can eternal lie"
"that some people still have time to waste at work. On the other hand, they got some free publicity out of it."
That's what I was thinking, and who are they to decide IE6 died today? "Aten Design Group, a design firm in Denver, Colorado." Oh, right, well they're the authority on browsers then, the prestigious design group in Denver, and forget the 20% of internet users still using IE6 "Despite its age, IE6 still held on to 19.8 percent of the market in February".
I hate IE6 as much as the next guy, but who am I (or Athn Design Group) to declare "it's dead"? Seems a bit presumptuous on their part, to declare themselves worthy of deciding what browsers we should use. What's next? "Up next at 10: Frank's Computers declares Windows XP dead, funeral on Friday, donations accepted"
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
I am tempted to go just to see how many would come, and how many are just there, like me, to see how many came.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Not until I am given the option in IE8 to revert the GUI to match IE6's EXACTLY.
There is NOTHING I hate more than a forced interface change.
If anyone knows how I can do this without installing a 3rd party application let me know.
Otherwise IE6 will remain on my machine forever.
It may not be dead, but it certainly doesn't matter anymore. Netscape still had around 40% market share when most developers considered it dead. Most people quickly adopted IE after that because they had to. The faster we stop supporting IE, the faster people will upgrade to something more modern.
Not until I am given the option in IE8 to revert the GUI to match IE6's EXACTLY.
There is NOTHING I hate more than a forced interface change.
If anyone knows how I can do this without installing a 3rd party application let me know.
Otherwise IE6 will remain on my machine forever...
Not that I would advocate any such thing, but it should would be nice if someone would use one of the many security holes in IE6 to quietly and automatically upgrade all IE6 installations to IE8.
Proud member of the Weirdo-American community.
For some companies, people are stuck on IE 6 for a variety of reasons:
I know web designers can't stand developing for IE 6, Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc. etc., but I'll bet you there are way more corporate IE 6 users than you think!
Dec 21, 2012 they are planning for almost two years too many.
it appears you are complaining about someone wasting their time on the internet
in a comment on slashdot
lol!
while i repair my irony detector, please think about the meaning of concepts like "hypocrisy", "equivalency", and "lack of perspective"
k thx
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
"as recommended by the manual" my "correctly expressed" response is I'm unemployed "you insensitive clod!".
This does not suffice however, for it may be brought back to life by means of a secret rite that can be performed once a century when the moon is in the eighth house of Aquarius.
Just when you thought it was gone for good. :p
Yeah...
More than 100 people, many of them dressed in black, are expected to gather around a coffin Thursday to say goodbye to an old demented uncle that constantly shat himself, never understood anything we told him and we all hoped would just friggin DIE already!
There. Fixed.
If the new national IT infrastructure includes Death Panels for software, I'm all for it.
Just to make sure it's really dead.
I say we nuke the entire Microsoft campus from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
"Slashdot - News and Chat Sites Deviant". (Click "homepage" link above for details).
Dammit. You beat me to it. I was busy doing Real Work(tm), or I'd have posted a very similar item.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
You are joking. I refuse to believe otherwise.
But I still have to support IE6 because that's what 18% of our website visitors use. IE as a whole has a about 70% usage share, with Firefox's different versions being about 10%.
that some people still have time to waste at work. On the other hand, they got some free publicity out of it.
Free publicity was the entire point. You can argue the merits of whether this should have been effective, but it would be hard to argue that they didn't accomplish anything.
WOW! I think I just got trolled by a Jedi Master... I mean it really made me angry for a moment. Now if this isn't a troll then it really explains a lot... Just wow...
Design firm looking into "creative advertising".
It just smells that way.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
Why would anybody mourn the death of that piece of crap?
It finally exploded?
The Googlioni family sends a message. IE6 sleeps with the fishes.
This is what happens when you say you are going to "fucking bury Google."
If you can read this, I forgot to post anonymously.
who still use IE6 for the sheer enjoyment of it. And while we may be stuck with IE6 because IE7 and IE8 aren't supported on an XP SP1 computer, we still love it. (Yes, some of us are stuck, for upgrading to SP2 causes problems, breaks software, and no, I am not kidding.) And this is a personal computer, not a corporate one.
My local library still uses the damn thing. When they explained that they had security concerns about other browsers, IE8 included, I gave up.
True, but they got more free publicity than they can shake a stick at. I'm sure the goal was exposure.
I'm reading this article from a workstation running IE6, because that's the SOE for where I work. Non SOe software which is not authorised (and alternate browsers are not authorised) are heavily and actively policed.
I'm sure I'm not the only one in that situation.
Sara
Designer, Gamer, Macgrrl in an XP World
ok, so, everyone hates IE6, what else is new. What I really don't like is how MS is making the mad amounts of money from "having the market" whilst all of us struggle to keep our sites working on their monsters of systems.
I'd like some compensation from all the time I've wasted to make my sites and systems work in their deprecated access to the web, whilst being unable to move on, as clients demanded IE6 support, because 60% of their (corporate) visitors still used it.
MS is taking the dosh, and everyone else wastes their time to deal with it. That's not right.
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. BW.
http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/picador.htm
vs
http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/kungfumaster.htm
FIGHT!!!!
Though my AC status puts me more into
http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/lurker.htm
Also the flowers sent by the IE team was a nice funny touch.
s/Stallman/Google/g; /g;)
s/ambitious/crufty/g;
-- Political fascism requires a Fuhrer.
this the only supported web browser at the Australian Taxation Office... as it works with the not yet fully implemented, yet getting creaky, CRM.
IT Security, thy name is not the ATO
Just don't use it out on the internet. It's just too dangerous.
So long as one has another modern web browser for real browsing, what's the problem?